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Preferred term

mhyMa'anyan  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Maanyan or Maanjan or Maanyak Dayak is an Austronesian language belonging to the East Barito languages. It is spoken by about 150,000 Ma'anyan people (subgroup of Dayak people) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is closely related to Malagasy languages spoken in Madagascar. There is high lexical similarity with other East Barito languages like Paku language (77%) or Dusun Witu (75%).

Entry terms

  • Ma'anyan language

ISO 639-3 code

  • mhy

In other languages

  • Ma'anjan

    Dutch

  • Ma'anyan

    French

  • Bahasa Maanyan

    Indonesian

  • Bahasa Maanyan

    Malay

  • Lenga Ma'anyan

    Piedmontese

  • Ma’anyančina

    Slovak

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/mhy

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